As oil and gas prices are surging amid the Russian escalation in the Ukraine, consumers around the world are going to see the immediate effects of the crisis at the gas pump or in their next utility bill.It doesn‘t stop there, however, as other commodi…
More than one quarter of the Bulgarian population isn’t able to properly heat their homes according to data from Eurostat. With a share of 27.5 percent, the Balkan state tops the EU average by almost 20 percent as our chart shows.Bulgaria is followed b…
Roughly 27 percent of people aged 15 to 24 are unemployed in the MENA region, the highest percentage share of all world regions. As our chart based on data by the World Bank shows, even richer regions like North America are not exempt from the issue of…
Safe havens rallied and commodity benchmarks soared upon the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which despite large Russian troop build-ups and threats by Russian President Vladimir Putin constituted a worse-case scenario for international observers.Precious…
Following Russian attacks on several Ukrainian cities early Thursday morning, a major escalation of a crisis that has been building for months, European leaders have strongly condemned Russia’s aggression and threatened wide-ranging consequences. As a …
On February 24, 3 AM Greenwich Mean Time Russian president Vladimir Putin announced the start of a “military operation” in Ukraine, attacking several cities in the Eastern European country after months of amassing troops at its borders. This unexpected…
U.S. oil prices were rallying Tuesday morning amid a standoff between Russia and Western powers over Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to start regarding two long-embattled Ukrainian regions, Donetsk and Luhansk, as independent state…
After Russian President Vladimir Putin announced Monday that his country now regards the two long-embattled Ukrainian regions Donetsk and Luhansk as independent states and that he would station Russian troops there, the U.S. and Western allies are prep…
Speaking to reporters before her return from the Munich Security Conference on Sunday, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris cited rising energy costs as a potential immediate consequence for Americans of the confrontation between Russia and Western powers…
Even in a globalized world, language barriers have the potential to exclude people from access to information and participation in the global conversation. After all, what good is the world wide web if you speak a language whose footprint barely extend…